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Pope Francis on Sunday advised Catholics to take a special dose of spiritual medicine, offering some 20,000 boxes of “mercy” — containing rosaries — to pilgrims in St Peter’s Square. “I now want to suggest a...

Accelerating ice loss from the Antarctic icesheet could be due in part to active volcanoes under the frozen continent’s eastern part, a study said on Sunday. From 2002 to 2011, the average annual rate of Antarctic icesheet loss increased...

Dorian Lee Harper and his wife, Wanda Sue Larson, were arrested on Friday after deputies found their 11-year-old foster child handcuffed to the porch with a dead chicken hanging from his neck. Police arrived at the home of Harper and Larson, who...

A Boeing 737 on a domestic flight crashed Sunday while attempting to land at Kazan airport in western Russia, leaving 44 dead, the emergency situations ministry said. The plane, which took off from Moscow, “crashed at Kazan airport at 7:25...

The cold open to Saturday Night Live last night featured repertory player Bobby Moynihan as embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. The skit began as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Toronto interview with Ford, who repeatedly confessed that...

Internet gambling is on a roll in the US market after years lurking in the shadows. New Jersey kicks off its online wagering November 26, becoming the most populous state to do so after Nevada and Delaware. Other states have become active since...

South Africa’s Nelson Mandela remains “quite ill” and is unable to speak, using facial expressions to communicate as he receives intensive medical care at home, his ex-wife told Sunday media. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said the...

An alternate ending to be included in the Breaking Bad: The Complete Series box set — which will not be released until November 26 — was leaked online last night. The ending features Bryan Cranston, who played “Walter...

Berlin — Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly German recluse who hid hundreds of paintings believed looted by the Nazis in his Munich flat, will not give up the works without a fight, a report said Sunday. Gurlitt, 80, told Der Spiegel news weekly in...

John Chrastka’s brigade of pissed-off librarians came into the game late in the Louisiana parish ballot referendum defunding libraries for jail money. But the social media blitz appears to have paid dividends, both for library funding in...

An Army officer linked by DNA to the sexual assault of several young girls will be allowed to argue that his identical twin brother could have committed the crimes. 1st Lt. Aaron Lucas, a decorated artillery officer, is charged with sexual...

AECOM Technology Corporation posted a short video animation of the design for Qatar’s new Al Wakrah sports stadium Saturday, which under almost immediate criticism for its resemblance to female genitalia. Buzzfeed’s Matt Kiebus noted...

Martin Pengelly, theguardian.com As celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address begin around the US, a Pennsylvania newspaper has issued a retraction of its predecessor’s criticism of Abraham Lincoln’s speech....

In a bit less than eight minutes, a YouTube contributor demonstrated how futile the “no liquids” security policy in airports may be. In a video on YouTube, contributor Evan “treefort” Booth at Terminal Cornucopia takes common items...